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Gulliver’s Travels Part 4. By: Hannah, Xavier, Mehek , Bibi , Kevin, Matt, and Paulo. Biography. Jonathan Swift was born on the 30th of November, 1667, at a house in Hoey’s Court in Dublin. His mother was a widowed and her husband died leaving her a poor estate in the spring of that year
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Gulliver’s TravelsPart 4 By: Hannah, Xavier, Mehek, Bibi, Kevin, Matt, and Paulo
Biography • Jonathan Swift was born on the 30th of November, 1667, at a house in Hoey’s Court in Dublin. • His mother was a widowed and her husband died leaving her a poor estate in the spring of that year • Jonathan Swift father was the seventh or eighth son of Rev. Thomas Swift Vicar of Goodrich, near Ross
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels is one of the most important works of literature. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. It is not known when exactly he wrote it but some sources suggest as early as 1713 when Swift, Gay, Pope, Arbuthnot and others formed the Scriblerus Club, with the aim of satirizing popular literary genres
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.
Chapter 1 • Gulliver leaves his pregnant wife • Captain of Adventure • Death • Recruiters • Betrayal • Land
Yahoo and Houyhnhnm • Yahoo- Hairy, eats meat, • Houyhnhnm- horse, eats hay,
Chapter 2 • Building • Wounded horse • Food • Sleep
Chapter 3 • Language • Learning and comprehension • Houyhnhm’s willingness to teach • Author’s willingness to learn
Chapter 4 • Houyhnhnm’s desire and inability to understand the Author’s: • Clothing • Language • Customs • Use of Horses • Methods of Travel
Theme • According to W.B. Carnochan, a major theme throughout the text is human understanding and the inability to comprehend. • Languages • Customs • “the thing which was not”
Europe’s Broken Judicial System • “there was a society of men among us, bred up from theiryouth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose,that white is black, and black is white, according as they arepaid.”
Separation Of Wealth • “The bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make few live plentifully” • Like a reverse Robin Hood
Methods To Becoming Chief Minister • “Knowing how, with prudence, to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister • “Betraying or undermining his predecessor” • Corruption of the court. (Ironic)
Chapter 7 and 8 • “The reader may be disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to give so free a representation of my own species...who were already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity betwixt me and their Yahoos.”
Racism and Classic Literature • “I entered a firm resolution never to return to humankind, but to pass the rest of my life among these admirable Houyhnhnms...” • “another thing he wondered at in the yahoos was their strange disposition to nastiness and dirt” Pg. 2612 • Is the racism satirical or real?
Yahoos vs. The Houyhnhmns • Is the “civilization” of human nature a farce? • Are we really less than other animals? • Is the comparison Swift is making valid?
Fate of The Yahoos • A meeting of the Houyhnhnms is held to decide the fate of the yahoos. Gulliver’s master decides to use ideas shared by Gulliver himself in which the yahoo were to be treated as horses were in his country!
A Simpler Living • Gulliver explains how intelligent and resourceful the Houyhnhnms are. The create simple homes, understand herbal medicines, and live their lives till the die of old age, which they accept and see as a part of life.
Banishment • Gulliver begins settling more comfortably, and is even made a room to live in. He begins to see people back home as yahoos, and develops an equal disgust. Houyhnhnm’s are unpleased that he is treated as their kind and is asked to leave the island, which he does.
Gulliver’s Travels Pt. 4: Ch. 11 Gulliver leaves Houyhnhnmland New Holland barbarians Rescue by Pedro de Mendez Don Pedro & Gulliver at Lisbon Home (not so) Sweet Home A Piece of Houyhnhnmland
Gulliver’s Travels Pt. 4: Ch. 12 • True Story (If you are Gullibl.. err Gulliver!) • The Crown gets no piece of the pie • If Yahoos were as wise as Houyhnhnms…
Deep Sea Analysis • Gulliver has probably gone mental • Houyhnhnmland could be a third world country (but with people instead of horses)
Bibliography Bentman, Raymond. “Satiric Structure and Tone in the Conclusion of Gulliver’s Travels.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Vol 11, No. 3. Restoration and Eighteenth Century(Summer, 1971) Pg. 535-548. JSTOR. 25 Nov. 2012. Carnochan, W.B. “Human Behavior Mind and Body in literature” Modern Language Quarterly; Mar 64, Vol. 25, Issue 1 p5, 17p. 25 Nov. 2012. Cviak, Henry. “Left of Swift.”Swift: Selections From His Work. Literature Sources from Gale. Database. 22 Nov. 2012. Kelly, Anne Cline. “After Eden: Gulliver's (Linguistic) Travels.” ELH 45.1 (1978):33-54. JSTOR. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. Nuttal, A.D. “The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol 18, Pope. Swift, and Their Special Number” (1988), pp. 51-67. JSTOR. Web. 25 Nov. 2012. Washington, Gene. "Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels,' bk. 4, ch. 1." The Explicator 52.2 (1994): 75. Academic OneFile. Web. 25 Nov. 2012.
